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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462697703321

Autore

Feilla Cecilia

Titolo

The sentimental theater of the French Revolution / / Cecilia Feilla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-01630-0

1-315-55299-X

1-317-01629-7

1-4094-1164-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Performance in the long eighteenth century : studies in theatre, music, dance

Disciplina

842/.509

Soggetti

Theater - France - History - 18th century

Books and reading - France - History - 18th century

Theater - Moral and ethical aspects - France

Electronic books.

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The bestsellers of the French Revolution, or, Why sentimentality dominated the revolutionary stage: four case studies (la mère coupable, le déserteur, fénelon, and les deux petits savoyards) -- Revolutionary tableaux: Diderot, David, and the sentimental frame of politics -- Sentimental vows and the affective bonds of social contract: national and private theatricals in Collot d'Herbois's La famille patriote -- Virtue's proofs: Paméla on stage and on trial during the terror -- Virtuous citizen, suffering father: Voltaire's Brutus and the sentimentalization of political tragedy -- Acting revolution: Talma and the sentimental body.

Sommario/riassunto

Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Providing close readings of texts by, among others, Denis Diderot, Collot d'Herbois and Voltaire, Feilla maps the ways in which continuities and innovations in the



theatre from 1760 to 1800 set the stage for the Nineteenth-Century.